I prefer Mongolian Beef. Seriously though, the Australia stuff has gone on for a bit long. I don't really care about how the people in one Australian city feel about the people in another Australian city, much less about their choice of footwear.

My Dad moved to Warnambool a few years ago and my sister shortly after, seems they have both now become alcoholics since getting there (or thats the impression i get from their facebook feeds every week) so going by that maybe they are so angry all the time because they are always hungover? Or it could be a similar feud some scottish folk have with England or Australia and New Zealand....

@markr: Oh man, I'd forgotten how delightful it is to hear Sydney described as a "dumb hole". Honestly I don't hate Sydney that much, I just know that Melbourne is better but MAN, "dumb hole" is just fantastic.

Oh man, I had been running behind on bombcasts but just caught up on this Australia beef thanks to this thread. Sent in an email setting shit straight about where the best place to live is. (It's out in the country)

As soon as your mines are empty I can't see a reason why anyone would want to go there. Seriously, you're like a world away from the important part of Australia. At least over here we're only an hour away from each other.

Man, I guess we'd better put some steaks on the Barby because of how HOT this beef slinging has become. I love how it has also started encompassing areas of science and the various regions of Australia. All because of one man saying it was okay to wear "thongs" to work.

As soon as your mines are empty I can't see a reason why anyone would want to go there. Seriously, you're like a world away from the important part of Australia. At least over here we're only an hour away from each other.

For Jeff's reference, Australian pronunciation always reduces anything possible to two syllables or less:

Melbourne: Mel-bun

Brisbane: Bris-bun

Canberra: Can-bra

Adelaide: Hole

Haha yeah, Jeff's pronunciation of Brisbane gave me a chuckle. It's pretty much par for the course though, very few non Australians get it "right".

Also who are these people that claim they wear thongs to work? I never see that in Melbourne. I also see a lot more people walking around bare foot than in thongs (I do it too sometimes depending). Not even in a scummy suburb either.

I like how the Youtube clips START with a reference to the previous episode. I guess it was the one where Jeff was gone and Will Smith was there, and they talked about Australia's minimum wage or something? I forgot how that led to thong talk.

I'm living in Canberra (previously various places in New Zealand, then the Gold Coast). Canberra's not too bad, although I wouldn't call it a city. It's a sensible place. (Don't forget, people may say that Canberrans are all politicians, but all the politicians live outside Canberra and come visit to reinstate knighthoods and such here).

I feel like I'm the only Australian who doesn't hate all the other Australian cities, but then I remember I'm a New Zealander (New Zealand is Australia's Canada.)

Also, not up to date with the bombcast, but the J in jandals stands for Japanese. As in Japanese Sandals.

Yep. I haven't been there but I work with a lot of Aussies (and a fair selection of [in descending order of population] Brits, Filipinos, USAers [yes, "America" is bigger than the USofA, I'm one of 'em], Scots, New Zealanders and a Singaporean) and I've not heard even one of them expressing desire to go back to Townsville again after having been there...